 |
 |
| | ~ Peter Malinoski Art Guitars ~  Peter Malinoski never expected to become an artist, but this is what he is, and he's been making art objects for almost 30 years.
He made his first guitar in 1986 because he was not satisfied with the store bought standard he then owned and there weren't many other options back then. From that first instrument he was hooked on the idea of making wildly different electric guitars than are typical, the potential for their creation as a beautiful functioning object seems endless.
"Guitars are the best Art I can make and I feel privileged to do so....and I haven't had a profound thought in 20 years."
The Malinoski Philosophy:
"I think solid body electric guitars are stuck in the past and they have become stunted by their own success."
"From the beginning, solid body electric guitars were designed for mass production - their construction was made to accommodate efficient mass production and not at all fine construction. If it was too difficult to make, it would be too expensive to mass produce and few people would buy them. The guitar companies, the successful guitar companies, knew this and were willing to compromise the quality of their designs in order to make cheap, mass produced instruments to sell at low prices. This is the root history of solid body guitars and it has become their tradition and the prevailing understanding of how solid body electric guitars 'should' be made."
"Compare this now to the history of acoustic guitars, which like violins and other traditional stringed instruments were developed long before mass production. These instruments enjoyed a long gestation of development by master builders to become mature instruments, thereby making their mass production a much more difficult process to produce the same results. Where solid body electric guitars were designed for ease of mass production, acoustic guitars would never compromise their design integrity for mass production."
"I make guitars one at a time, one-of-a-kind. I have developed my own systems, shapes and forms that are similar with each instrument I build, but always different. The last one always affects the next one, no two are ever the same. I consider the guitar as a complete sculptural object where all forms, shapes, colors and material share a design integrity, where the back is as important as the front and the sound as important as the image; they are not simply a collection of pieces and parts. Although I use standard off the shelf components like strings, tuners and bridges, I make my own pick-ups and build them into the guitar as part of the total design integrity."  | "My guitars and basses are not meant to be the do-all-end-all instrument for every utility as typically described. They aren’t built the same, they don’t look the same, they don’t sound the same as any other instrument. My intention is to create unique and beautiful instruments that are to be used to make unique and beautiful music."
- Peter Malinoski | | | |
|
MalinoskiArt Guitars Custom
"Today we accept that solid body electric guitars should be built about the same way as they were 60 years ago. I think this is a sad fact and it is my desire to give these wonderful instruments the respect they deserve by eliminating mass production techniques and mass production influenced design biases in favor of handcrafted individualism..." |  |
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
|
|
|
Malinoski
